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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 2060529" data-attributes="member: 151">Dude, hold out until you get what works for you.  I spent almost a solid 2 years of research before getting my system (and behaving financially).  The time and effort paid off, big time.This past weekend, I got the TV output to connect to my stereo receiver, so I could play Metroid Prime 2 and Resident Evil 4 in surround sound.  Very Cool  (and in the case of RE4, very creepy...).The big decisions are all about what you want to watch, and what features matter the most to you.  I wanted a TV with cablecard, for example, and that turned out to be a big deal, as I get the HDTV feeds for no extra money over cable, even without the cablecard...and since my tv has two tuners (but only one QAM tuner), I can leave the Tivo hooked up to the other channel feed.   I also selected a TV that had an excellent reputation for it's 'stretch' modes of modifying 4:3 images to 16:9, since I knew I'd be watching a lot of 4:3 TV.  Animation, in particular, scales very well.  We watched the pilot for Avatar: the Last Airbender last night, and there was very little artifacting.</blockquote>